Nick Batsikouras knew it was time for a change in his own diet, so the Bruce Township entrepreneur came up with an idea that would make it easy to lose weight.

Batsikouras, 48, came up with the Smart Diet Scale, which was the only Macomb County company to exhibit at the 2013 CES (Consumers Electronics Show) held last month.

“I was surprised to be the only one and only 40 businesses from Michigan were there,” he said. “CES went very well. I went there with a prototype not knowing what the response.

“A lot of people said it was a great idea,” he said. “I already have 10 distributors who want to put it in large retail stores; and I have four companies that were interested in the technology. It’s really exciting.”

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Batsikouras is serious about his Smart Diet Scale. His website, www.smartdietscale.com, details what the Smart Diet Scale software does.

The Smart Diet Scale works with ease. Place your food on the Smart Plate then place the Smart Plate on the Smart Scale.

Or it can be used for weighing food and measuring ingredients for food preparation.

“With our cloud technology, you can connect with people having similar goals and build a support network within your Smart Diet Scale community,” he said.

Batsikouras said if your goal is to lose 60 pounds, the Body Shaping Program can show you what you would look like 60 pounds lighter.

“It can also display an image of your body if you gain 20 pounds of muscle and lose 10 pounds of fat,” he said. “Or if your goal is to have a certain body fat percentage, it will show you what you look like at that percentage.”

Batsikouras said to take a picture of yourself from your smart phone, tablet or laptop, and download it to the Smart Diet Scale Body Shaping Program.

“The program is capable of showing your weight loss in as low as 5 pound increments, all the way up to 500 pounds,” he said. “You can use our pre-installed Body Shaping Software by entering your current weight, body measurements, age, sex, and body type. The software will make a body image of what your goal is.”

In 2011, Batsikouras said he lost 100 pounds in 12 months using the Smart Diet Scale and has kept it off ever since.

“It’s helped improve my life,” he said. “A person I met at a 2012 New Year’s Eve party asked me what I do for a living. I told him about the Smart Diet Scale I invented. It turned out that he is a diabetic. He explained to me all the work and time he needs to spend on meal planning, tracking, weighing food, looking up the sugar and carbohydrates in everything he wants to eat, just to keep his diabetes under control. A few minutes past midnight in the new year of 2013, he introduced me to his wife and said ‘this is Nick, the man that is going to change my life.’

“As I was flying back from the 2013 CES show, the person sitting next to me asked what I was doing at the CES,” he continued. “I told her about the Smart Diet Scale and she said ‘what a great product, Nick. The world really needs it.’”

For more information, call (586) 752-6371 or visit www.smartdietscale.com.